Improvement in shifting-rails for vehicles



' L. H ULLINGER. Shifting-Rail for Vehicles.

' No. 222,823. Patented Dec. 23,1879.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

LEE HULLINGER, OF SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF OF HIS RIGHT TO A. T. BYERS, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHIFTING-RAILS FOR VEHiCLE S.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 222,823, dated December 23, 1879; application filed February 24, 1879.

the shiftingrail and filing and polishing the rail after its construction.

The object of my invention is to rapidly make a shifting-rail with rail polished without thewelding on of lugs or teats t0 the shiftingrail.

The invention consists of an eyebolt, either solid or open, (with thread on end,) through which the shifting-rail passes, with a saddle between the shifting-rail and the seat-iron of a buggy. The tightening of the nut on end of eyeholt clamps the shifting-rail, the saddle, and seatiron of a buggy, carriage, or wagon firmly together, and is illustrated in Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings.

Fig. 1 is a sectional view of the rear portion of a carriage-seat, in which A is the shiftingrail; 13, the eyebolt, G, the saddle or washer, in which the shifting-rail rests. D is the seat iron, perforated in the usual way for screws, bolts, or rivets; also, to receive the eyebolt B. E is the nut, the tightening of which firmly clamps the shiftingrail A, the saddle G, and the seat-iron D together. H and I are sections of the ordinary form of the rear panel and bottom panel of buggy or carriage seat with the seat-iron D in its proper place.

Fig. 2 is an elevation of the eyebolt with the saddle in section, the nut being omitted.

Fig. 3 is the eyeholt split so that the prongs pass on each side of the shifting-rail, nut and saddle omitted.

The same letters refer to like parts in each figure.

What I claim is- A smooth shifting-rail, A, combined with an adjustable coupling-eyebolt, B, and saddle G, whereby the shifting-rail may be made without welded-on feet, and readily adapted to buggy-seats of dilijereut widths.

LEE HULLINGER.

Witnesses:

- R0131. (J. RODGERS,

A. T. BYERS. 

